[Clayart] books etc/long

[mae spencer]

That is not a problem confined to Arizona or the South.
Here in Minnesota it happens too.
Even when burners are carefully wrapped it can happen.
Mae Spencer


On Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 4:36 AM David Woof <woofpots at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Kelly,
> Just to add a "critter" problem I encountered in Arizona was that tiny
> spiders entered the burner orifice holes and used the orifice cavities as
> miniature nest areas.
>  It wasn't a big problem to remove and clean the six burners if I had
> known ahead of time that Arizona spiders could be so diminutive and plug
> the orifices with sticky web like material.
> But as a show deadline was looming it was a bit of a scramble to get the
> burners firing and admittedly I wasn't dancing and grinning as I elbow
> greased my way through the task.
> I fashioned easy to reach and remove wire "plugs" of close fit diameter
> for the orifices after that first episode.
> Timing is everything!!!!  Knowledgeable Kiln maintenance with foresight is
> also everything!!!
>
> Happy you posted and to hear a bit of your adventures and accomplishments.
>
> Misneach,
> David
> Woof..............................................................................................................................
>
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> From: Clayart <clayart-bounces at lists.clayartworld.com> on behalf of Kelly
> Savino <ksavino at buckeye-express.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2023 4:16 PM
> To: clayart at lists.clayartworld.com <clayart at lists.clayartworld.com>
> Subject: Re: [Clayart] books etc/long
>
> On Thu, 23 Feb, 2023 at 1:56 PM, mel jacobson <melpots at mail.com> wrote:
>
>
> When I started working on the kiln book, Tony Clennell said to me...."I
> think you may
> be too late to write a kiln book, in a couple of years no one will be
> firing with
> gas or wood. It will be all electric."  And, of course he was correct.
> Building
> a home gas kiln is out of fashion. And, only the young and hardy will even
> think "wood".
>
>
>
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>
>
> Mel, your friend Diana Pancioli taught me how to build a gas kiln. We
> fired her little salt and soda cats with propane but mine at the lake is
> hooked up to natural gas. It's just a cubic yard inside, but I built it
> myself (kids and hubby helped hand me bricks) and it's braced with angle
> iron and threaded rods. Dug out squares of sod like cutting out brownies,
> rented a baby cement mixer for the foundation. Stacked bricks on the wooden
> arch while my grandma sat in the shade with lemonade and critiqued.
>
>
> I fire it by myself - (a treat, after group firings w fellow grad
> students). So I can break all the rules and if I ruin the pots they are
> mine to ruin.
>
>
> The two biggest problems I have are potters wasps making nests in the
> burner ports and chipmunks filling the thing with acorns in the off season.
> I once left it for a week between firing and unloading and found one of my
> teapots full of acorns.
>
>
> And once I used outdated oat bran to mix into my wadding, came back a day
> later to brick up the front and discovered all my pots tipped, the wads
> nibbled to bits and field mouse and chipmunk poop everywhere.
>
>
> I also have to carefully evict tree frogs from the burner ports.
>
>
> But I fire with owls hooting at night and sandhill cranes calling in early
> morning.. It's all good.
>
>
> Hi to the old gang, from Kelly in Ohio (formerly known as primalmommy)
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